You're a very responsible admin. This really sounds weird and like those people might need some help. But anyway, you're not responsible for them.
My suspicion is if you ban them they'll keep in touch anyway. Using PMs, mail or create a fb group. I guess everything that gets banned gets even more attractive and creates a potential for conspiracy theories.
What you can do apart from a legal disclaimer is adding a "normal" disclaimer in their forum section saying something like this isn't scientific and you as an official forum admin don't personally agree, but you decided to allow them to discuss.
The reason why I think it's better to keep it in public is that other members can step in and give logical arguments in case something goes out of control. If you force them to keep things secret it might get worse and no one will know.
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